title: Phasing of coherent femtosecond X-ray diffraction from size-varying nanocrystals.
abstract: The scattering between Bragg reflections from nanocrystals is used to aid solution of the phase problem. We describe a method for reconstructing the charge density of a typical molecule within a single unit cell, if sufficiently finely-sampled "snap-shot" diffraction data (as provided a free-electron X-ray laser) are available from many nanocrystals of different sizes lying in random orientations. By using information on the particle-size distribution within the patterns, this digital method succeeds, using all the data, without knowledge of the distribution of particle size or requiring atomic-resolution data.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA. spence@asu.edu
authors.forename: John C H
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Spence
authors.forename: Richard A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Kirian
authors.forename: Xiaoyu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Uwe
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Weierstall
authors.forename: Kevin E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: White
authors.forename: Anton
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Barty
authors.forename: Henry N
authors.initials: HN
authors.lastname: Chapman
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Marchesini
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Holton